2017 CWA Dagger Winners

Ann Cleeves was awarded the Diamond Dagger, and Mari Hannah was presented with the Dagger in the Library award. The after-dinner speaker was Robert Thorogood, writer and creator of Death in Paradise, and master of ceremonies was noted crime fiction buff, Barry Forshaw.

The Ian Fleming Steel Dagger

Spook Street (John Murray) by Mick Herron

Also shortlisted:You Will Know Me (Picador) by Megan AbbottThe Killing Game (Bookouture) by J S CarolWe Go Around in the Night and Are Consumed by Fire (Myriad Editions) by Jules GrantRedemption Road (Hodder & Stoughton) by John HartThe Constant Soldier (Mantle) by William Ryan

CWA Gold Dagger forNon-Fiction

Close But No Cigar: A True Story of Prison Life in Castro’s Cuba (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) by Stephen Purvis

Also shortlisted:A Dangerous Place (The History Press) by Simon FarquharThe Scholl Case: The Deadly End of a Marriage (Text Publishing) by Anja Reich-OsangThe Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer (Bloomsbury Publishing) by Kate SummerscaleA Passing Fury: Searching for Justice at the End of World War II (Jonathan Cape) by A. T. WilliamsAnother Day in the Death of America (Guardian Faber Publishing) by Gary Younge